Global Leadership Series: Food Bowls vs Dust Bowls. What is the future of food?
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 15 October 2013
- Time:
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Room:
- The Long Room
- UQ Location:
- Customs House (Customs House)
- URL:
- http://www.alumni.uq.edu.au/food-bowls-vs-dust-bowls-what-is-the-future-of
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Prue Rayner
- Phone:
- 63908
- Email:
- p.rayner2@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Alumni and Community Relations
Event Description
- Full Description:
- We do like our food. We know what we like, and especially what we don’t like.
Perhaps you are vegetarian. Maybe you’re a meat lover. Or do you have a special diet because of food intolerances? For the present, we have these choices.
Think ahead. It is the year 2050 and we are coping with a different Australia – less usable water, climate change and more than 30 million people.
What are the food choices in 2050? And what is the cost of securing its diversity, quality and quantity?
Will there be a never-ending need for more land and resources to feed and house our growing population and will this need cost us our healthy cities and biodiverse environment? Will we still have access to a diversity of affordable food or will we be forced to accept less attractive ingredients as human food?
Perhaps the biophysical challenges for agriculture in the decades ahead and the application of food science post-harvest will be just the catalysts needed to harness our ingenuity to produce ‘better’, more nutritious, more tasty, lower GI food.
What policies, investments and research are necessary now to deliver the smartest science, technology and knowledge to agriculturalists, environmentalists, town planners and policy makers to secure and sustain Australia’s enviable clean, green food bowl, quality of lifestyle and unique environment?
On Tuesday 15 October 2013, on the eve of the UN World Food Day, we have assembled a panel of global research leaders in food, agriculture, environment and human landscapes to cut, dice and serve up current and prospective global thinking on aspects of sustainability and food security in a changing world.
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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